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A bantamweight bout featuring Rob Font vs. Cody Garbrandt headlines this UFC event s main card
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A bantamweight bout featuring Rob Font vs. Cody Garbrandt headlines this UFC event s main card
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BANTAMWEIGHT BOUT 135LBS: #3 ROB FONT 18-4 VS #4 CODY GARBRANDT 12-3
This is a low key really good main event. Font has been on a little tear as of late, beating the new Bellator champ Sergio Pettis, Ricky Simon, and finishing Marlon Moraes last December. He’s been very impressive and now will stare across at former champ Cody Garbrandt, who always brings the heat. Garbrandt has a wrestling base but prefers the stand-up game, looking to throw bombs and get into wars. It s his greatest asset, but also
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A top bantamweight contender will emerge Saturday in Las Vegas, and with the addition a high-quality scrap added from UFC 262, the result is fight fans getting to see one of the best-quality free cards of the year.
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The Ultimate Fighter and Volkanovski at least it excited about the opportunity.
“It was a little bit of a shock,” Volkanovski told Helen Yee. “I was planning on how I was gonna get home, waiting for the negative (COVID) tests and whatnot so I could get home and then literally while that was happening we got wind of the TUF house and were like, ‘Alright’. Then before we knew it, it was locked in so I was like, I guess I’m here to stay. (Laughs).
“It’s gonna be good fun. I cannot wait to go out there. I love being in front of the camera so four, five weeks, however long it is in front of the camera, it’s gonna be good. I’m looking forward to it. It’s gonna be good banter. Obviously a lot knowledge and I just can’t wait.”
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Joshua Culibao will attempt to secure his first octagon victory when he faces Chinese talent Yilan Sha in a featherweight bout on May 22, multiple people with knowledge of the booking told MMA Fighting.
The UFC has yet to announce the location and broadcast details for the show, which features Cody Garbrandt vs. Rob Font in a five-round bantamweight headliner.
Australia’s Culibao (8-1-1) joined the UFC as an undefeated 8-0 prospect in 2020 but lost via TKO to Jalin Turner before fighting to a split draw with Charles Jourdain eight months later.
Sha (19-6) cuts back down to 145 pounds after going 4-1 as a lightweight in his five recent MMA bouts in his native China, stopping three of his opponents.